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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
Fabulist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
Buried
Living
Better
Beggary
Beggar
Emperor

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You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead They will open a window and return.
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Foxes are all tail, and women all tongue.
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Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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Patience et longueur de temps Font plus que force ni que rage. Patience and longevity Are worth more than force and rage.
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We heed no instincts but our own.
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Still people are dangerous.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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To live lightheartedly but not recklessly to be gay without being boisterous to be courageous without being bold to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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We believe no evil till the evil's done
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Every newspaper editor owes tribute to the devil. [Fr., Tout faiseur de journaux doit tribut au Malin.]
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But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
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Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.
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One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.
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How wealthy the gods would be if we remembered the promises we made when we were in danger.
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Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully.
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